We
learned earlier in the episode that the comic book
store murder victim had
been engaged in a running online feud with a guy nick-named 'Corn Dude"
(whose real name was Benjamin Alvaro), and that Alvaro's truck was videotaped
after-hours in the store's parking lot on the day of the murder.

So,
next we see Sgt. Doakes and Maria LaGuerta on a Stakeout at night, sitting
on the hood of a car in a parking lot, drinking coffee and waiting for
the murder suspect to arrive.

As
they wait, Doakes & LaGuerta talk about old times, about Doakes' potential
problems with recent killings, and about LaGuerta's sleeping with Pascal's
boyfriend to shake up her rival.

Then
the suspect, Alvaro, arrives in his Ford truck, and Doakes & LaGuerta
spring into action to bust him.

Q.
What is it actually in real life?

A. A parking
lot, but far from Miami.

Q.
Where can I find it in real life?

A. The scene
is dark, so it's hard to pinpoint the exact position, but it was definitely
shot in a parking lot nearby Shoreline Village,
a seaside shopping & dining center in Long Beach, CA

(That's the
same Village where they filmed the Comic
Book store murder scene earlier in this episode.)

As best as I
can tell, Doakes & LaGuerta's car was parked at the far northwest
end of the Shoreline Village parking lot, behind the Yard House restaurant.
The traffic on the street behind them is on Shoreline
Drive.

For most of
the scene, the camera is facing the north & northwest. When
they look up at the arriving suspect and his truck, the camera is looking
south/southeast, at the main Shoreline Village lot.

(The
photo above shows the parking lot on the northeast side of Shoreline Village,
looking southwest, with Tequila Jack's and The Yard House restaurants to
the right.)

(The
photo above is looking south/southeast across the Shoreline Village parking
lot.)

(The
photo above is looking north, out towards Shoreline Drive, with the Hyatt
Regency Hotel in the background.)

Numerous other
scenes from "Dexter" have been shot in this general area,
including multiple scenes at Shoreline Village, the area around the Queensway
Bridge, in Shoreline Park, and at the Coast Long Beach Hotel.

Q.
How the heck did you figure out where it was?

A. It wasn't
easy.

Since they had
filmed so much around Shoreline Village in recent episodes, that was the
first place I looked. The problem was determining where they were
parked.

But if you look
closely, in some of the background shots, you can see the buildings of
the Long Beach Convention Center, across the street. You can also catch
a brief glimpse of the white Ferris wheel, which is located outside the
Pike on the north side of Shoreline Drive (in some shots, the lights of
the Ferris wheel are reflected in the mirrored walls of the Hyatt Regency
hotel), and even one of the fountains in the Convention Center ponds.